Eduard Gasparyan v. United States

Whether the federal government “constructively possesses” property seized by state law enforcement—thereby conferring jurisdiction under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g)—when state authorities expressly defer to federal prosecutors on the disposition of the property, federal prosecutors refuse to return it, investigate its provenance, dispatch federal agents to interrogate the owner’s family about it, and initiate steps to liquidate it to satisfy a federal restitution order.